Prep Laborer**
**Job Description**
We are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Prep Laborer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for preparing parts for production, ensuring accuracy, and maintaining quality standards. This role involves working with various materials and requires an understanding of production processes.
**Responsibilities**
+ Remove casted parts from the shop and pull parts from bins.
+ Verify parts accuracy by reading work orders.
+ Fill bins per work order with designated parts.
+ Use a computer screen to select specific heat treatments per order.
+ Load parts onto the conveyor and dry parts by hanging or manually cleaning them.
+ Push carts to and from staging areas.
+ Prepare and mix powder and other coating materials.
+ Check pressures, adjust airflow, and ensure even drying temperatures.
+ Clean all paint parts after use, such as nozzles and guns.
+ Conduct quality checks on parts for defects.
**Essential Skills**
+ Strong attention to detail.
+ Ability to follow work orders and read blueprints.
+ Strong computer skills.
+ Mechanical assembly and manufacturing experience.
+ High school diploma.
**Additional Skills & Qualifications**
+ Powder paint experience is nice to have.
+ Ability to mix multiple colors and understand high-mix, low-volume production.
+ Math ability to handle mixing and measurements.
**Why Work Here?**
This is a union company offering numerous benefits, including pay increases every six months, healthcare benefits after 90 days, and a probationary period that ends after 120 hours. Employees also enjoy health and dental coverage, profit sharing, personal and sick time, upward mobility, and long-term career opportunities.
**Work Environment**
The work is conducted in a manufacturing facility specializing in emergency warning systems. The day shift runs from 6:00 AM to 2:30 PM, Monday through Friday. The company employs over 500 people across three separate unions, providing a collaborative and dynamic work environment.
**Job Type & Location**
This is a Permanent position based out of University Park, Illinois.
**Pay and Benefits**
The pay range for this position is $40185.60 - $40185.60/yr.
Health, dental, vision, 401K , short term and long term disability, vacation time, 10 paid holidays, and company profit sharing
**Workplace Type**
This is a fully onsite position in University Park,IL.
**Application Deadline**
This position is anticipated to close on Aug 6, 2025.
**About Aerotek:**
We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.
Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
**Job Description**
We are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Prep Laborer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for preparing parts for production, ensuring accuracy, and maintaining quality standards. This role involves working with various materials and requires an understanding of production processes.
**Responsibilities**
+ Remove casted parts from the shop and pull parts from bins.
+ Verify parts accuracy by reading work orders.
+ Fill bins per work order with designated parts.
+ Use a computer screen to select specific heat treatments per order.
+ Load parts onto the conveyor and dry parts by hanging or manually cleaning them.
+ Push carts to and from staging areas.
+ Prepare and mix powder and other coating materials.
+ Check pressures, adjust airflow, and ensure even drying temperatures.
+ Clean all paint parts after use, such as nozzles and guns.
+ Conduct quality checks on parts for defects.
**Essential Skills**
+ Strong attention to detail.
+ Ability to follow work orders and read blueprints.
+ Strong computer skills.
+ Mechanical assembly and manufacturing experience.
+ High school diploma.
**Additional Skills & Qualifications**
+ Powder paint experience is nice to have.
+ Ability to mix multiple colors and understand high-mix, low-volume production.
+ Math ability to handle mixing and measurements.
**Why Work Here?**
This is a union company offering numerous benefits, including pay increases every six months, healthcare benefits after 90 days, and a probationary period that ends after 120 hours. Employees also enjoy health and dental coverage, profit sharing, personal and sick time, upward mobility, and long-term career opportunities.
**Work Environment**
The work is conducted in a manufacturing facility specializing in emergency warning systems. The day shift runs from 6:00 AM to 2:30 PM, Monday through Friday. The company employs over 500 people across three separate unions, providing a collaborative and dynamic work environment.
**Job Type & Location**
This is a Permanent position based out of University Park, Illinois.
**Pay and Benefits**
The pay range for this position is $40185.60 - $40185.60/yr.
Health, dental, vision, 401K , short term and long term disability, vacation time, 10 paid holidays, and company profit sharing
**Workplace Type**
This is a fully onsite position in University Park,IL.
**Application Deadline**
This position is anticipated to close on Aug 6, 2025.
**About Aerotek:**
We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.
Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
Job ID: 487547672
Originally Posted on: 7/31/2025
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